Photo Movies
Watch your photos on a DVD player
- We can turn your digital photos or scans into a slideshow with transitions between pictures and burn this to DVD VIDEO.
- We can combine with movie files from your still camera or video camera.
- The completed DVD will contain one movie file and will play in any DVD player, whether it is jpeg compatible or not.
- You will not be able to make prints from the photos on this DVD.
DVD-Video versus Data-DVD
Many customers ask us to save their images to a DVD as they assume any DVD will play on any DVD player.
However, to play on a DVD player files must be in a format recognised by the DVD player (VOB files). Depending on how we burn files to a DVD we will create one of the two following types:
Data-DVD (DVD-ROM)
- DVD-ROM is a data storage format just like CD-ROM - files are exact copies of those captured by your camera (usually jpeg).
- This is the format we use to save photos to DVD on our kiosks and PCs - photos are safer here than on a USB drive as they cannot be erased.
- DVD-ROMs play in any computer with a DVD drive
- Some (not all) DVD player models can display jpeg photo files from CD or DVDs - check your operating manual
DVD-VIDEO
- DVD-Video is principally a video and audio format used for movies.
- The video file is a VOB format.
- We need to use movie-making software to turn photos into a video slideshow .
- DVD-Video plays an all DVD players attaChed to a TV as well as on PCs with DVD-players( and movie software)
- All DVD players attached to your TV will play a DVD-Video
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PHOTOS on DVD
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DVD-video files
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jpeg files
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Format
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A single VOB file, regardless of number of images, that plays like rented movies.
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One JPEG file per image
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Origin
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Created with movie-editing software.
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captured by a digital camera or from a photo scanner.
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Compatibility with PCs
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Only viewable on PCs with DVD drive. Require DVD playing software.
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Only viewable on PCs with DVD drive. Require image viewing software - common.
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Compatibility with DVD players
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Plays on almost all DVD Players. (Some older players do not support the DVD-R format).
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Your DVD Player must be JPEG compatible. Large files are very slow to appear on the TV. If we reduce photos in size to speed up they are very "blocky"
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Music
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We can add music to your video.
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No Music.
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Transitions
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We add dissolve or fade transitions between each photo.
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Some DVD Players will add transitions for you. Please refer to your DVD Player's manual.
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Prints from photos
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not available
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easily done
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